Poetry.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .
Found in 2772 Collections and/or Records:
Seven letters of Kathleen Raine to William Cookson.
File
Identifier: Acc.9641
Scope and Contents
With corrected proofs of Raine`s poems published in "Agenda".
Dates:
1986 and undated.
Sheet of poetry of Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10172
Scope and Contents
Includes part of "Fete Champetre".
Dates:
circa 1780-1796.
Sheets of music and bound volumes of poetry and music once owned by Mrs Elizabeth MacInnes, Dandaleith.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21759-21762
Dates:
[?1808-?1837.]
Short book of verses and caricatures by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter, Mrs Strong.
Item
Identifier: MS.8791
Scope and Contents
The book describes Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter's famous visit, paid in company with the Countess of Jersey, to the rebel king Mataafa at Malie (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 223-234). Three letters, 1892, of Stevenson are also included. One, apparently unpublished, is addressed to Mataafa and the other two (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 216-217) to 'Amelia Balfour', a pseudonym for Lady Jersey. All these items...
Dates:
1892.
Short pieces, poems and notes for books of Nancy Brysson Morrison., 1923-[circa 1970], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27352
Scope and Contents
The notes include material for ‘The hidden fairing’ (London, 1951) (folio 25), ‘The following wind’ (London, 1954) (folio 29), and ‘The private life of Henry VIII’ (London, 1964) (folio 62).
Dates:
1923-[circa 1970], undated.
Short poem titled 'On Margaret' by Thomas Carlyle for his mother, Margaret Carlyle, probably written shortly after her death., ?1853.
Item
Identifier: MS.23167, folios 23-25
Shorter poems, chiefly of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1783-1810.
File
Identifier: MS.12829
Scope and Contents
Includes duplicates of material in MS.12824.
Dates:
1783-1810.
Signed and numbered copy of 'Cokkils' (Edinburgh, 1953) by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1953.
Item
Identifier: MS.26126
Single items and small collections, chiefly of the 16th and 17th centuries.
File
Identifier: MS.9931
Scope and Contents
The contents include:
A letter, 1562, of William Maitland of Lethington to the Earl of Leicester, expressing his wish for continued friendship between Elizabeth and Mary (folio 1);
A letter, 1581, of the Jesuit, William Crichton, describing his efforts to have James VI brought up as a Catholic (folio 6);
A letter, 1621, of Michael Drayton to William Drummond of Hawthornden, published in ‘The library’, 5th series, volume xxi (1966), pages 328-330 (folio 21);
Short Latin poems by Andrew...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1562-1820.
Single items and small collections of letters and verses of Edwin and Willa Muir.
File
Identifier: MS.19703
Scope and Contents
The papers include letters of Edwin Muir to Janet Adam Smith about poetry and reviewing, with drafts of "Orpheus' Dream", first published as 'Eurydice' in ‘The Listener’, xiv (1951) Page 863; letters of Willa Muir to Tom Scott on literary and personal matters; and a series of letters from both Edwin and Willa Muir to Kathleen Raine.
Dates:
1932-1970.
Single letters and documents., 1510-19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2208
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letter, attributed to circa 1590, of John Gordoun to Patrick Bruce, Leith, with a modem transcript. ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, volume v, page 11. (Folio 1.)(ii) Eighteenth-century copy of Sir Thomas Wortley's inscription at Wharncliffe, 1510. (Folio 4.)(iii) Letter, 31 August 1582, signed by several of the Ruthven Raiders, to John Erskine of Dun, summoning him to Stirling. Smellie, William,...
Dates:
1510-19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Single letters and papers.
File
Identifier: MS.2521
Scope and Contents
The papers include: letters, 1795, 1810, of Sir Alexander Boswell, containing original humorous verse; copy of a list, 1849, made by Cockburn, giving the authorship of articles in the 'Edinburgh Review'; contemporary copy of a speech, ?1617, delivered by James I and VI in Edinburgh (parts being given in summary); letter, 1807, of Sir James Bland Burges (afterwards Lamb) on Sir Walter Scott's literary profits; letter, 1808, of Sir James Mackintosh dealing with Indian affairs; letter, 1830,...
Dates:
?1617-1849.
Single letters and papers chiefly of the nineteenth century, with a few of the eighteenth century.
File
Identifier: MS.1810
Dates:
1736-1893, 1903, undated.
Single letters to Naomi Mitchison from W H Auden, Edward Garnett, and Aldous Huxley.
File
Identifier: Acc.8185
Scope and Contents
On literary, political and personal matters.
With typescript of a poem, 1930, of Mitchison.
Dates:
1930-1938.
Single pages and fragmentary jottings of passages, from unidentified poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' in manuscript and typescript., [1925, or before]-[1978, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27032
Dates:
[1925, or before]-[1978, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Poetry of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Passages, from unidentified poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' in manuscript and typescript.
Six letters between Iain Crichton Smith and Robert Nye, including a poem., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.6294/35
Six letters between Robert Greacen and Robert Nye, including a poem., 1972.
File
Identifier: Acc.6294/19
Six letters of John L. Broom to Betty Grant, concerning life and literary matters in Stromness, with typescripts of two poems, `The Lion is Seik` and `A Puckle Middens`.
File
Identifier: Acc.13136
Dates:
1982-1990.
Six notebooks of Honor Arundel.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10238
Scope and Contents
Notebooks contain poetry, prose and a diary.
Dates:
1939-1972.
Six poetry notebooks of Bashabi Fraser.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13157
Scope and Contents
The six notebooks cover the period of approximately 1966-1998. The dating is inconsistent and some of the notebooks cover overlapping periods. The volumes contain draft poetry and prose, some with extensive corrections and amendments.
Dates:
circa 1966-1998.
Sixteen Gaelic poems copied in the hand of the Reverend A J Macdonald., 1806-1824.
File
Identifier: MS.3781
Scope and Contents
'Gaelic Poems by sundry authors, mostly anonymous. From MSS. left by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine Minʳ of Little Dunkeld, 1806-1824. These MSS. were sent to Killearnan Manse by Miss Irvine Robertson, to whom they belong, and received by me, A.J. Macdonald, Minʳ of Killearnan, Octʳ 8. 1914.'.
Dates:
1806-1824.
Sketchbook of Elizabeth and Harriet Kerr with some poetry included., 1829.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/334
Dates:
1829.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Forbes Family sketch books.
Small collections and single letters presented by various donors.
Series
Identifier: MS.5406
Dates:
1810-1897.